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There’s an x800 v2 coming soon, the main differentiators are it plays niche formats like SACD and DVD-audio. It’ll cost more than the 700.
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“Bug Game” sales are live at bestbuy. TCL 6 series 65” is back to $800, same as Thanksgiving. They also added a listing for the new 75” 6 series, but the last 10 inches costs a $1000 premium.
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Jan 13, 2019 17:47
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No further discounts on the x900f though. Maybe that will change in another week. The price on that tcl though is really making me question just going with that instead.
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Jan 13, 2019 18:11
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eddiewalker posted:“Bug Game” sales are live at bestbuy. TCL 6 series 65” is back to $800, same as Thanksgiving. Perfect timing 
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Jan 13, 2019 18:15
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Luckily Amazon had an inexpensive tabletop VESA mount that will be delivered today. I didn’t want to buy a new piece of furniture for the tv. I’ll be picking up my new TCL this afternoon m. I’ll hold off on the UHD player for a bit as the first UHD disk I plan on purchasing is Shin Godzilla and I won’t be getting that until next month. So I’ve never used Roku before. Do I use that to sign in to my Netflix/Amazon Prime/HBO accounts and use it like a portal?
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Jan 13, 2019 19:13
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Roku has apps. You get apps for your services.
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Ok groovy, thank you. Ok last thing: for the settings should I use the ones on the Rtings website to make sure the picture doesn't look like oversmoothed garbage? Man UHD disks are priced high still on the couple movies I'm looking for (Black Panther and Fury Road). I guess I've been spoiled by cheapass disks.
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Jan 13, 2019 20:44
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Things that are listed as on/off tend to be fine to follow for the most part. It’s usually turning off motion smoothing and other artificial crap. Things that are listed on a scale are a starting point. Every room is different and every panel differs slightly too.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Ok groovy, thank you. Ok last thing: for the settings should I use the ones on the Rtings website to make sure the picture doesn't look like oversmoothed garbage? BP without slipcover and possibly no code, $12.50 shipped BP 4k disc, no Blu-ray or code, but does include packaging and slipcover, $13.88 I could go on but yeah, just hunt around!
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Ah dang I never thought of things like ebay for disks. I just realized that one of my cats is going to be disappointed with my tv choice because he loves laying in front of my plasma because that thing projects a lot of heat. Of course it led to me watching movies like this a lot.  Gao~ by Doug Hardy, on Flickr
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Jan 13, 2019 22:50
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The LG C8 55inch is back to its lowest price ever on amazon. What will i missing on it if i don't wait for the 2019 model?
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Jan 13, 2019 23:01
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fyallm posted:The LG C8 55inch is back to its lowest price ever on amazon. What will i missing on it if i don't wait for the 2019 model? Alexa support and Apple Homekit.
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Jan 13, 2019 23:08
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Alexa support and Apple Homekit. That's all? I don't have alexa and no apple anything. There isn't any HDMI upgrades or anything?
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Jan 13, 2019 23:41
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fyallm posted:That's all? I don't have alexa and no apple anything. There isn't any HDMI upgrades or anything? It supposedly supports VRR
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fyallm posted:That's all? I don't have alexa and no apple anything. There isn't any HDMI upgrades or anything? Oh poo poo, yeah I forgot. HDMI 2.1 and full 120hz refresh rate. Sorry
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Jan 14, 2019 02:17
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eddiewalker posted:
The more I look at tv prices I realize guys, if we could add two inches for $1000 we'd do it
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codo27 posted:The more I look at tv prices I realize guys, if we could add two inches for $1000 we'd do it lmao Oops, I read the wrong TV's box dimensions from the BB site* and of course it was too big for my drat car, so delivery on Tuesday instead of having it home tonight. It'll give me more time to get things ready at least. *I had both the 55" and 65" pages open from earlier as I was going to decide between the two and of course I read the dimensions for the 55" to measure if it would fit in my hatchback 
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I ended up cancelling my Best Buy order for the 65r615 and ordering the 65r617 from Target. Target wouldn’t price match Best Buy down to $800 due to the sku difference, but the Target Card discount brings $850 down to $807. $7 more at Target and getting the better RF remote seemed worth it.
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Another reason Canada is a consumer wasteland. "Lol target wtf is this poo poo? Good products at good prices? gently caress that. I wanna pay 2 million for my igloo liners" man I miss target
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The dollar sign would come after the number in Quebec no? https://www.techradar.com/reviews/tcl-8-series-8k-qled-roku-tv And here I can still only get 1080i through cable.
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Dang, I was crossing my fingers that the soup or bowl deal on the 55” R615 would be better than the sale a couple weeks ago. $500 is still a wee bit much for my just-bought-a-house budget, but I was hoping to really leverage my Xbone X when Anthem comes out. I’ve seen that yearly price history graph, so I know prices usually drop later in the spring as new model gains traction. But TCL technically didn’t announce a new series at CES - just that larger size of the 6 series. Do you think that’ll buck the trend and keep the 6 series at a higher price for longer?
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Oh poo poo, yeah I forgot. HDMI 2.1 and full 120hz refresh rate. Sorry Going to sound really stupid, but what is HDMI 2.1? Is it a faster speed? Better picture? I really don't know anything
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fyallm posted:Going to sound really stupid, but what is HDMI 2.1? Is it a faster speed? Better picture? I really don't know anything
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Jan 14, 2019 22:02
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The more important thing isMagusDraco posted:It supposedly supports VRR Which is a huge thing for gaming
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MagusDraco posted:It supposedly supports VRR FINALLY
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fyallm posted:Going to sound really stupid, but what is HDMI 2.1? Is it a faster speed? Better picture? I really don't know anything Not just more bandwidth, but a move to a packet-based format like DisplayPort uses. This makes VRR more straightforward and makes it easier to support additional features compared to the way previous versions move data.
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fyallm posted:Going to sound really stupid, but what is HDMI 2.1? Is it a faster speed? Better picture? I really don't know anything 10k res @ 120hz Because gently caress yeah why not!
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I just got a LG C8. I have a receiver that I currently use to connect my PS3 (Netflix, Amazon, Hulu) and Chromecast video streams to the TV while the receiver handles the audio to my 5.1 setup. How good is the LG smart TV stuff and will it spy on me more than Sony does already? Also if I were to use the TV apps how do I run the audio out to the receiver? HDMI?
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I would actually rate WebOS only behind Roku as far as smart TV systems go. Yeah, you would just use ARC to the receiver. You really don't want to be using the PS3 to stream Netflix or Amazon since you wouldn't get UHD that way.
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bull3964 posted:I would actually rate WebOS only behind Roku as far as smart TV systems go. Yeah, you would just use ARC to the receiver. Sounds great I'll mess with trying to sort that out tomorrow. I was wondering about that, I knew the PS3 wouldn't play 4K discs but didn't know about streaming. Thanks for the info.
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eddiewalker posted:“Bug Game” sales are live at bestbuy. TCL 6 series 65” is back to $800, same as Thanksgiving. It's 10" but it's 33% more screen. Of course, if you buy two 65s that's 100% more screen...
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LG's upcoming rollable OLED looks really sweet, and will probably be insane price-wise, but what I'm really excited for is the future potential of a screen that will dynamically conform to the aspect ratio of whatever content you watch. No more black bars, but in a good way.
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Yeah non-fixed AR is definitely a really cool thing. OLED blacks being as good as they are means the bars don't really bug me so much, but eliminating them is definitely a step forward. Although I'm having mental images of a TV that adjusts itself based on sensing A/R going ballistic when you play a movie that has IMAX scenes inserted that use up the full frame, and possibly catching fire if you try to watch The Grand Budapest Hotel (which had enough AR switching that the projector at the cinema I saw it at just loving gave up and projected everything incorrectly after about 15 minutes, which was painful).
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This sort of slipped by the thread, Hisense showed off some out of box thinking https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.engadget.com/amp/2019/01/07/hisense-ces-2019/ So, it's a 4k RGB lcd in front with a 1080p grayscale lcd behind, and then local dimming for a full array backlight. The idea is that the 1080p grayscale display helps block out bloom from the local dimming of the backlight, getting you deeper blacks. Not a bad idea in theory, wonder if it really works out that well.
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EL BROMANCE posted:The Grand Budapest Hotel (which had enough AR switching that the projector at the cinema I saw it at just loving gave up and projected everything incorrectly after about 15 minutes, which was painful).
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Got my TCL 65R615 from Best Buy delivered and set up and holy poo poo this thing is an insane upgrade from my ~12 year old 45" Plasma. I found how to turn of motion smoothing (apparently you have to have a video stream actively on to get to this setting) but I found there are also "Natural Cinema" and "LED Motion Clarity" settings... what exactly do these do and should I just turn them off?
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Got my TCL 65R615 from Best Buy delivered and set up and holy poo poo this thing is an insane upgrade from my ~12 year old 45" Plasma. The answer is: make everything look like poo poo. And yes.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Got my TCL 65R615 from Best Buy delivered and set up and holy poo poo this thing is an insane upgrade from my ~12 year old 45" Plasma. from the rtings guide quote:Natural Cinema is the option which enables the TCL's judder reduction feature. We leave it off for our calibration, but turning it on will remove judder from 24p content (movies usually) played from non native-24p sources such as a cable box, or even from the built-in apps.
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